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Dartford assistant manager Paul Sawyer hopes four points over Easter will provide a platform for a play-off push

Dartford still fancy their chances of making the play-offs after taking four points over Easter.

Of the top eight in National League South, only Maidenhead had a better Bank Holiday weekend and they visit Princes Park for a hugely important game on Saturday.

Darts beat Bishop’s Stortford 3-1 on Friday and drew 1-1 at Ebbsfleet on Monday to end their four-match losing streak. Three points outside the play-off places with six games left, they know April will make or break their promotion hopes.

Danny Harris gets a shot away during the 1-1 draw at Ebbsfleet Picture: John Westhrop
Danny Harris gets a shot away during the 1-1 draw at Ebbsfleet Picture: John Westhrop

Assistant manager Paul Sawyer said: "Hopefully we can have a right go at it in the last month. This month hasn’t gone as well as we wanted it to but we’ve finished it on a positive.

"We had a good win on Friday, it was a good point on Monday and we now get Elliot Bradbrook back, Andy Pugh comes back, Lee Burns is on his way back and hopefully Paul Lorraine can become match fit, so all of a sudden we’ve got some options.

"Over the last few weeks we’ve been struggling. Lee Noble’s been playing and maybe he shouldn’t be playing as much as he has done. He’s coming back from a long-term injury, as is Barry Cogan.

"Everybody’s beginning to get fit at the same time so there’s a lot of positives.

"We’ll give it a go for the last month. We’ve got nothing to lose and we’re quite positive about it.

"We’d have definitely taken four points if someone had said that to us on Friday morning. We have had a bad spell and sometimes it goes that way.

"We’ve had a bad two weeks but hopefully those four points will give us a platform to push on and have a decent last month of the season."

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